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I'm trying to find some more background on why this happened, and man it's muddy. Some sources I take with a grain of salt [0] allege that it's about leaked do

I'm trying to find some more background on why this happened, and man it's muddy. Some sources I take with a grain of salt [0] allege that it's about leaked documents concerning a local restaurant owner's DUI which might make her ineligible to hold a liquor license. Others seem to indicate this is a personal issue re: the police chief [1]. To me, this reeks of small town politics, and someone overstepping to do a [potentially/probably improper] raid that probably would never have made headlines had they not stepped into a first amendment hornets' nest. [0]: https://nypost.com/2023/08/16/marion-county-record-owner-calls-out-suspicious-timing-of-raid-docs/ https://nypost.com/2023/08/16/marion-county-record-owner-cal... [1]: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda-henneberger/article278282098.html https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda...

CaliforniaKarl 3y ago
It's not really that muddy. https://www.rcfp.org/marion-county-record-raid-letter/ https://www.rcfp.org/marion-county-record-raid-letter/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/editor-of-marion-county-record-discusses-possible-motives-behind-police-raid-of-newsroom https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/editor-of-marion-county-re... Or you can read their own coverage at http://marionrecord.com http://marionrecord.com
- toomuchtodo 3y ago
  https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193676139/newspaper-marion-county-kansas-police-raid-first-amendment https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193676139/newspaper-marion-c... https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194115195/kansas-newspaper-publishes-its-first-edition-following-police-raid https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194115195/kansas-newspaper-p... https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article27823...
celtoid 3y ago
Here's a conversation [0] with the editor of the paper by an indie journalist. She originally broke the story about the editor investigating the police chief. [0] https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the...
cratermoon 3y ago
Notice that the DA is now trying to spin it as an ordinary investigation into "an employee at the Marion County Record may be guilty of unlawful acts concerning computers". Sure, that may have happened, but maybe someone inside just gave them the docs. Whatever officials are saying now, it's cover for harassing and intimidating the newspaper and the reporter to prevent or in retaliation for publishing the story.
justin66 3y ago
> I'm trying to find some more background on why this happened, and man it's muddy. In the past several days this has been about as thoroughly reported on and explicated - locally, nationally, and even internationally - as any small-town freedom of the press incident could possibly be.

CaliforniaKarl 3y ago

It's not really that muddy. https://www.rcfp.org/marion-county-record-raid-letter/ https://www.rcfp.org/marion-county-record-raid-letter/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/editor-of-marion-county-record-discusses-possible-motives-behind-police-raid-of-newsroom https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/editor-of-marion-county-re... Or you can read their own coverage at http://marionrecord.com http://marionrecord.com

toomuchtodo 3y ago
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193676139/newspaper-marion-county-kansas-police-raid-first-amendment https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193676139/newspaper-marion-c... https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194115195/kansas-newspaper-publishes-its-first-edition-following-police-raid https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194115195/kansas-newspaper-p... https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article27823...

celtoid 3y ago

Here's a conversation [0] with the editor of the paper by an indie journalist. She originally broke the story about the editor investigating the police chief. [0] https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the...

cratermoon 3y ago

Notice that the DA is now trying to spin it as an ordinary investigation into "an employee at the Marion County Record may be guilty of unlawful acts concerning computers". Sure, that may have happened, but maybe someone inside just gave them the docs. Whatever officials are saying now, it's cover for harassing and intimidating the newspaper and the reporter to prevent or in retaliation for publishing the story.

justin66 3y ago

> I'm trying to find some more background on why this happened, and man it's muddy. In the past several days this has been about as thoroughly reported on and explicated - locally, nationally, and even internationally - as any small-town freedom of the press incident could possibly be.